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BUSINESS
Feb 24, 2001

Japan-U.S. open-skies talks stall

Japan-U.S. aviation talks ended Thursday in Washington with no tangible progress on a U.S. proposal to form an open-skies accord, Japanese officials said Friday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Feb 24, 2001

Hitachi Zosen, NKK to merge shipbuilding units

Hitachi Zosen Corp. and NKK Corp. said Friday they will merge their shipbuilding operations into a fifty-fifty joint venture to be established Oct. 1, 2002, as the global industry becomes increasingly competitive.
BUSINESS
Feb 24, 2001

Hitachi Zosen, NKK to merge shipbuilding units

Hitachi Zosen Corp. and NKK Corp. said Friday they will merge their shipbuilding operations into a fifty-fifty joint venture to be established Oct. 1, 2002, as the global industry becomes increasingly competitive.
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2001

International NTT unit to go local

NTT Communications Corp., a major long-distance and international telecom carrier, announced Thursday it will enter the local-call market on May 1.
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2001

International NTT unit to go local

NTT Communications Corp., a major long-distance and international telecom carrier, announced Thursday it will enter the local-call market on May 1.
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2001

Miyazawa says 10% sales tax inevitable

Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said Tuesday that raising Japan's consumption tax rate to around 10 percent, the same level as in European nations, from the current 5 percent is inevitable in order to realize fiscal reconstruction.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2001

FSA urges banks to dispose of bad loans

The Financial Services Agency hopes to come up with a plan by the end of the fiscal year that will contain incentives to encourage banks to speedily complete disposing of nonperforming loans, Financial Affairs Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa said Tuesday.
SOCCER / World cup
Feb 21, 2001

Net ticketing could start soon

said Tuesday domestic applications over the Internet for tickets for the event to be cohosted with South Korea could start Thursday. According to JAWOC officials, the Internet service provider of soccer's world governing body FIFA successfully completed checks for more glitches from Monday night through...
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2001

Firms develop chip interface allowing cellphone video transmission

Toshiba Corp. and Infineon Technologies AG, a leading German semiconductor and system solution company, have jointly developed an interface between their microchips that enables the transmission, decoding and encoding of video to next-generation dual-mode cellular phones, Toshiba said Monday.
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2001

Firms develop chip interface allowing cellphone video transmission

Toshiba Corp. and Infineon Technologies AG, a leading German semiconductor and system solution company, have jointly developed an interface between their microchips that enables the transmission, decoding and encoding of video to next-generation dual-mode cellular phones, Toshiba said Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2001

Japan to build supersonic jet

Japanese aerospace scientists will begin full-scale development in March 2002 of a next-generation supersonic transport aircraft, it was learned Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2001

Japan to build supersonic jet

Japanese aerospace scientists will begin full-scale development in March 2002 of a next-generation supersonic transport aircraft, it was learned Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2001

Private panel to advise on environment

A private advisory group to the prime minister will start deliberations as early as next month with the goal of charting a more environment-friendly path for Japan, government officials said Friday.
SOCCER / World cup
Feb 17, 2001

JAWOC to print more World Cup ticket application forms

The Japanese World Cup Organizing Committee on Friday evening decided to print an additional 2 million mail-in application forms for 2002 World Cup tickets to meet the demands of fans in Japan.
SOCCER / World cup
Feb 16, 2001

JAWOC apologizes for latest World Cup ticket troubles

Japanese 2002 World Cup organizers JAWOC apologized Thursday for the computer glitch that has delayed Internet applications for tickets for next year's finals in Japan and South Korea.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2001

Noritsu to make 'minilabs' in China

OSAKA -- Noritsu Koki Co. said Thursday it will set up a wholly owned subsidiary and plant in Shanghai to start making "minilab" photo processing laboratory systems in October.
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2001

'Japan 2001' fest set to take center stage in U.K.

Several years ago, Foreign Minister Yohei Kono and former British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind came up with an idea. Why not try, they asked, to think of ways for Japan and the U.K. to promote each other's image in a better light?
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Feb 15, 2001

Bedfellows making a quick buck

The Yankees are sleeping with the devil. The Red Devils, to be exact.
BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2001

LDP panel approves bill on pensions

A panel of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party gave the go-ahead Tuesday to a government bill designed to drastically reform Japan's corporate pension system with an eye to protecting employees' rights to receive pension benefits.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

New UDC flats to be pet-friendly

Urban Development Corporation, a government-affiliated body that provides public housing, said Wednesday it will begin an experiment in March 2002 allowing residents to keep small pets at a rental apartment complex in Tokyo's Koto Ward.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2001

New UDC flats to be pet-friendly

Urban Development Corporation, a government-affiliated body that provides public housing, said Wednesday it will begin an experiment in March 2002 allowing residents to keep small pets at a rental apartment complex in Tokyo's Koto Ward.
BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2001

Keidanren, Nikkeiren become JBF

An organization to be formed from the merger of the Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) and the Japan Federation of Employers Associations (Nikkeiren) will take its acronym from its English-language name, the Japan Business Federation, the Nikkeiren chairman said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2001

Mazda directors' pay cut by 10%

Mazda Motor Corp. said Tuesday it will implement a uniform 10 percent pay cut for all its 25 directors on the board for one year from March.
BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2001

Mazda directors' pay cut by 10%

Mazda Motor Corp. said Tuesday it will implement a uniform 10 percent pay cut for all its 25 directors on the board for one year from March.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2001

Kabuki debuts at middle school

It is nothing new for kabuki actors to go out of Tokyo to perform, but Nakamura Kichiemon recently took an unprecedented step to provoke interest among young schoolchildren in the traditional theater.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2001

Inefficient public works projects creaking under debt burden

KOBE -- The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge, looks superb as it spans the Akashi Strait, linking Kobe and Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture.
University of Tokyo lands its highest spot ever in global higher education ranking
The University of Tokyo in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward
Ghost of Yotei’s bloodstained fun sidesteps Ainu identity
Ghost of Yotei, the follow-up to 2020's smash hit Ghost of Tsushima, is a violent, vengeful and engaging romp through 17th-century Hokkaido that fails to stick the landing on its most sensitive cultural material.
After ruling bloc breakup, CDP and Komeito eye unified PM candidate
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda speaks to reporters at the Diet in Tokyo on Friday.
As the Osaka Expo comes to a close, what will its legacy be?
After a run-up marked by apathy, organizers soon found they had the opposite problem as crowd control became a concern.
Why Japan's coalition collapsed — and what's next
Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi enters party headquarters in Tokyo on Thursday.
Ghost of Yotei’s bloodstained fun sidesteps Ainu identity
Ghost of Yotei, the follow-up to 2020's smash hit Ghost of Tsushima, is a violent, vengeful and engaging romp through 17th-century Hokkaido that fails to stick the landing on its most sensitive cultural material.
‘Takaichi trade’ starts unwinding as political calculus upended by Komeito exit
Less than a week ago, Sanae Takaichi seemed set to become Japan's first female prime minister.
‘Save the Ring’ calls intensify as Osaka Expo’s end nears
Visitors lounge on the grassy hill on the top of the Grand Ring during the 2025 Osaka Expo in the city of Osaka in May.
A Japanese comedian walks into an Aussie bar … and stays there
Takashi “Waka” Wakasugi stopped by the Tokyo Comedy Bar in Shibuya Ward last month following his stint at Edinburgh Festival Fringe performing his show “Comedy Samurai.”
Chemistry Nobel winner Kitagawa says downtime helped him think up new material
Susumu Kitagawa speaks to reporters at Kyoto University on Wednesday after receiving the news that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry the same day.

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